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The Pirate Bay scolds Anonymous for ISP DDoS attacks

Telcos attacked for blocking The Pirate Bay.

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has dubbed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by the Anonymous collective on telcos ordered to blacklist the site as censorship.

The Pirate Bay responded on its Facebook group to the DDoS attacks and said it did not encourage the actions and believed "in the open and free internet, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us".

“So don't fight them using their ugly methods. DDoS and blocks are both forms of censorship. If you want to help, start a tracker, arrange a manifestation, join or start a pirate party, teach your friends the art of Bittorrent, set up a proxy, write [to] your political representatives, develop a new p2p protocol, print some pro-piracy posters… support our promo bay artists or just be a nice person and give your mum a call to tell her you love her,” it said.

BBC News reported that the British Virgin Media was forced to take its website offline for an hour during a DDoS attack after the company began preventing access to The Pirate Bay last Wednesday following a UK High Court order.

A statement by Virgin Media said the attack lasted one hour and it had blocked The Pirate Bay only because it was forced to do so.

“As a responsible ISP, Virgin Media complies with court orders but we strongly believe that tackling the issue of copyright infringement needs compelling legal alternatives, giving consumers access to great content at the right price, to help change consumer behaviour.”

British ISPs including Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, BT and O2 have been ordered to prevent their users being able to visit The Pirate Bay.

BT had requested "a few more weeks" to consider its position.

Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said blocking The Pirate Bay was pointless and dangerous and would fuel calls for further, wider and even more drastic internet censorship.

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